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Credit: Murray Carpenter / Maine Public |
It’s a brisk late-October morning, with a bright sun breaking through the fog clinging to the surface of Floods Pond, in Otis. Brad Erdman and Fred Seavey load gear into an aluminum skiff, and head out across the water. |
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A series of net floats comes into view in shallow water alongshore. Erdman and Seavey, both University of Maine graduate students, begin to check the submerged net.
In a trap at the business end of the net, Erdman finds a sleek 18-inch female arctic charr. |
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